"Bury the Past" Ekun's Companion quest help

[Rapanui]

I am informed by the bar owner that Ekun is missing and I immediately go to his location at the bridge to find him fighting with that other woman killing Giants. From researching online (video) I see that people can have Ekun stop killing Giants and instead invite the main character to go do a memorial to his family over at ruined tower, but I seem to only have 2 results with Ekun, which are to accept his blood lust by killing Giants with him, or him getting angry with me and attacking me. Upon leaving the area and returning to the map I see new event is happening at the Ruined tower, and if I fought Ekun my journal asks me to talk to him at the capital, and one entry to talk to him after it says giants took advantage and attacked us while he got mad. If I goto Ruined tower he is there with medium sized dog, the barkeep, and a pile of wood ready to burn, but I am unable to talk to him. If I talk to him at the capital the Ruined Tower thing goes away completely, and if I go to the Ruined Tower and leave, then it'll be gone too.

Is this intended in the game that I did certain events where he is locked into being a vengeful guy, and locked out of doing the memorial for his family? Here are some of the decisions I have made before.

-Brought Ekun to get revenge at the Dwarven place
-Killed the Troll children
-Even though we killed the Troll he wanted revenge on, the journal says he didn't get it with that specific thing getting an X, but the overall quest being a success
-During the Party I allowed the other woman to get her cheap booze and pull Ekun aside
-I pushed Ekun toward the bar lady during Lindzi's song

I didn't get to find too much content online, but videos dating up to Oct 18th have people selecting for Ekun to chill out, and he listens and initiates wanting to do a memorial, but another video I saw from Oct 30 is like mine where if you pick that he is enraged and on edge to attack you. Aside from the dialog being different with him responding to asking him to not be all vengueful, I notice that the videos I saw where he doesn't get mad don't include mentioning the Troll he got revenge on in the first set of dialog options, which I believe are a total of 3, but my game including the recent game I saw online that had the same results as me has a 4th option mentioning the Troll he killed. That dialog option exists in the older videos after you exhaust the initial 3 dialog options.

I'd like to get Ekun to find peace in this playthrough, and especially have a more dramatic confrontation with that woman who is poisoning him. Anyone do this companion quest before October 18th and found it fruitless to try and calm him down, or do I have some bug in the game?

[OnlyOffensive]

you also had several choices regarding his pet and also there was a dialogue where you told him either accept his vengeful nature or enjoy life. Those probably lead you to conclusion

[Rapanui]

I had him name his pet.

[OnlyOffensive]

for that another choice to either support his bloodlust or calm him during party you need to persuade check him to drink with you. Maybe without it you've performed more negative actions with him than positive, like killing troll children etc.

[Rapanui]

we drank

[Rapanui]

Anyone eariler get the result where Ekun refuses to stop? Anyone currently able to get him to stop?

[Brian Sirith]

Yes, he stopped in my playthrough.

-Brought Ekun to get revenge at the Dwarven place
-Didn't ask about his family cause he didn't want to talk about it
-Didn't kill the Troll children
-Got the drink for the lady and let her pull Ekun aside
-Stepped away from Ekun so he could get away from Miss Pushy
-Drank with him
-Told him its ok not to name his pet

He stopped and he got a happy ending.

[Rapanui]

Hold long ago did you do this quest? In the past few days? I am curious if a newer patch has altered something, which is why I ask.

[Cloudhunter]

When i did this quest long time ago (one month?), i had no problems with it.
When going to the bridge, i was able to let Ekun go of his anger/hate. The lady was not happy about it. She went away. Ekun then goes away and told me to meet with him at the dwarfs tower. I went there, and Ekun is burning his past. While that, we are attacked by the lady and like 7 guys.

So, either something has changed during some patches (would not be the first time something like this happens) or there are other things responsible for it.

Regarding the stuff Brian Sirth did, i did it like this:
- Bought Ekun to get revenge at the dwarven place (without him i always failed there)
- didn´t ask about his family
- Killed the Troll children (had no choice regarding that)
- Got the drink for the lady and let her pull Ekun aside
- Stepped away from Ekun so he could get away from Miss Pushy
- Drank with him
- Told him its better to give his pet a name (which never shows up afterwards anywhere)

[S N E E D]

Regarding the stuff Brian Sirth did, i did it like this:
- Bought Ekun to get revenge at the dwarven place (without him i always failed there)
- Asked about his family
- Killed the Troll children
- Got the drink for the lady and let her pull Ekun aside
- Pushed Ekun towards Elina (tried hooking them up)
- Drank with him
- Told him its better to give his pet a name

Just did it today. Even if you try pushing Ekun towards vengeance at the final decision he tells you that he's done with that and that he wants to do a farewell for his family. The final choice is locked in based on prior decisions.

[Brian Sirith]

So which decision affects the final decision? The only two differences we have withCloud seem to be:

-Killing the children
-Naming the pet

and we got the same "stopped" result.

Todd you made him stop in the end too?

Looking at the OP's list too, I can't really see a pattern here... hmm

Edit: Did it about a week ago I think. Not sure.

[OnlyOffensive]

i just killed the giants. Seemed like a good solution to me.

[radziu93]

I aked about his family and chose options about stopping revenge, spared the trolls children, drank with him, told him to name wolf and pushed him towards Elina, still this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wouldn't listen to me. I guess there was only one decision that mattered and it was about giving wine to Ntavi. Really devs, really? This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up